My sister taught math to middle school kids for 45 years, the last 15 in a downtown Baltimore school. She watched the incredible increase in administrators. The administrator to teacher ratio ballooned 10X to 40X during her time teaching depending on the school district and state.
All those administrators do is interfere with teaching and introduce new education fads every year. Not one of them ever educated a kid.
It’s always the same in the federal government, state governments, welfare and education. They grow so big that they suffocate competence, performance, quality, efficiency, and initiative.
If we cut out 90% of them performance would soar.
> All those administrators do is interfere with teaching and introduce new education fads every year. <
That is so true, and something the general public is not normally aware of. As I noted elsewhere, things really got out of whack around the year 2000.
Before then, we were given overall objectives to teach. I was teaching physics at the time. So I’d be told to spend two weeks on circular motion. It was up to me to get the job done, using techniques that differed depending on the makeup of each class.
Then around 2000 waves of young new administrators started coming in. They’d quote “educational research” showing the way science MUST be taught. No deviation is permitted!
As you noted, the “research” changed almost yearly. One fad out, another fad in. It was maddening.